Scientists used a supercomputing facility to glean insights into the Saturn ring system’s history.
For this reason, space scientists have been attempting to decipher the exact origins of these iconic rings.
“There’s so much we still don’t know about the Saturn system, including its moons that host environments that might be suitable for life. So, it’s exciting to use big simulations like these to explore in detail how they could have evolved,” said Jacob Kegerreis, a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, in anThey ran simulations to see how collisions between precursor moons would have played out.
The Roche limit of Saturn is the closest distance from the planet that objects may orbit without being ripped apart by tidal forces induced by the planet’s powerful gravity.
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